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" The reason why the British theatrical tradition is world-leading in Greek drama is because there is a flourishing tradition of people rethinking Greek tragedy. "
Mary Beard
Drama
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Tragedy
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" I think that what will help women get into positions of power - well, day nurseries, equal pay, family-friendly working hours. And I think all that's important. I used to think it was the solution. I now think it's enabling, and it's important, but still we have got head work to do about this. "
Mary Beard
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" I would summarise my politics very simply as the maverick left and proud. "
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" I was not much good as a waitress. "
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" The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be punitive. "
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" What I find very interesting is, we're not enthralled by the ancient world, and we've escaped all kinds of ancient preconceptions and assumptions and prejudices. But, nevertheless, we still make that connection between authoritative speech and male speech. "
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" I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis. "
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Black
" At 16, I got into local-education archaeology classes - you got to go to summer digs. It allowed me to be both intellectual and a bad girl with a wicked social life every evening! "
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" For whatever reason, some sorts of women's silence were broken by MeToo. This is the optimistic bit. And that will lead to a much more careful attention to women's voices. "
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" All religions throughout history have been concerned about - and have sometimes fought over - what it means to represent God, and they have found elegant, intriguing, and awkward ways to confront that dilemma. "
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Over
God
" I'm an academic. I argue; I engage with people. "
Mary Beard
Academic
Argue
Engage
" Gender is a key marker of power and powerlessness. Most of the structures of how our world works are biased in terms of men. "
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Most
" If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women? "
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Women
Need
" The gloomiest way of describing the ancient world is it is misogyny from A to Z, really. "
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Ancient
Really
Describing
" I don't think that we are completely dominated by what we have inherited from the past, but it is the case that as far back as you can go - just to Homer, but also to the literature of Rome, the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance - what you will find is that women's voices are not taken seriously. "
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You
Past
Rome
" I think you have to realize that most ancient warfare is really kind of hit and run, honestly. You go and you bash down the walls of some enemy 50 miles away and you take some slaves, you take some cattle, probably a bit of cash too, and then you say goodbye and go home and you probably do the same thing next year - or try to, or they do it to you. "
Mary Beard
You
Enemy
Goodbye
" Beard's secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute. "
Mary Beard
Back
Always
Disaster
" I used to think that the British press were particularly awful to Cherie Blair. I think Blair's foreign policy was a complete disaster, but the British press, when they wanted to explain why Blair took unexpected moves, they did create Cherie as the power behind the throne. "
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Create
Power
Think
" There's a basic rule of thumb that the more a culture oppresses women, or oppresses anyone, the more culturally preoccupied they are with that. "
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More
Women
Thumb
" Wherever possible, I try to see things from the other side of the dividing line and to read civilisation 'against the grain.' "
Mary Beard
Side
Possible
Line
" I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger - every time I speak on radio or television. "
Mary Beard
Criticism
Time
Speak
" When you look at me on the telly and say, 'She should be on 'The Undateables,'' you are looking at a 59-year-old woman. That is what 59-year-old women who have not had work done look like. Get it? "
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Me
Woman
" When I am making a TV show, I am looking for engagement, not admiration. "
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I Am
" I loved 'Gladiator,' and I thought its depiction of gladiatorial combat, although it was an aggrandizing picture, was cleverly and expertly done. "
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Combat
Done
Thought
" Grey is my hair colour. I really can't see why I should change it. "
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Grey
Hair
See
" If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith. "
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Me
You
Ask
" I was nearly struck by lightning on an excavation in Turkey. "
Mary Beard
Turkey
Nearly
Struck
" There is no way, absolutely no way, that I would want people to stop reading the 'Odyssey.' But I want them to read it with their eyes open. To notice it and then to think what it says about us. "
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Reading
People
Eyes
" One of the great things about history is that it sort of isn't a done deal - ever. The historical texts and the historical evidence that you use is always somehow giving you different answers because you're asking it different questions. "
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Giving
History
Questions
" We are sold the idea of a refugee as a tiny child sitting crying, as a way of raising money, but elderly ladies and kids largely can't move. The demographic is mostly young men. "
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Men
Sitting
Way
" I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to look at a piece of silver. "
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Look
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Think